Terrace Gardening / Spinach

I have managed to create a small and an amateurish terrace garden over a period of some months with painstaking effort and tons of patience given the extreme climate of the place we live in. But after a nice flowering winter I can say I am more than ready to face whatever the summer has to offer both in terms of hard labour or it's fruits.For it is indeed a joy to see the seeds blossoming into young shoots and the young tender shoots becoming stronger before they are ready to bear the fruits! Oh, only a gardener would know such a joy, truly! :)

Now,coming to what I had in mind to discuss in this post.Spinach! It's something that finds favour in our family on most days so I thought why not grow them in my own backyard to pluck for a taste of freshness whenever I fancy.

But then I realised, darn its summer and not the best time to grow spinach. Well something had to be done. Okay, maybe not something as drastic as praying for a change of season for summer has it's own charm, never mind the scorching heat.So with a quiet determination I set out to lay a pot with soil and manure , cut open the seed packet that I had earlier bought and got down to the business of laying the seeds. Not too deep and not too shallow. Two inches deep into the soil the seeds went.

Now, to wait till the greens appeared.This is tricky. You may be hoping that in a few weeks the leaves would appear but unknown to you the seeds may already have been preyed on by the pigeons, squirrels and other unwelcome visitors. So be watchful, maybe put up a scarecrow surround the seed pot with thorny bushes or throw a net guard over the pot.

The picture here shows spinach after a month of sowing.